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The present book updates the subject matter and issues related to crop productivity, plant disease, plant treatment technology, plant health issues, agro-technology, sustainable agriculture and plant disease management. Thanks are due to contributors from various institutions and publisher for their interest in this book. The book will definitely provide a multidisciplinary forum to explore emerging areas in the field of crop plant productivity, plant health, agro-biodiversity, agriculture biotechnology, environmental conservation, plant disease management and agro-technology.

Contents: Preface. 1. Crop Residues Management: Improving soil quality and crop productivity/Tripti Nayak, Chandrakant Thakur, Payal Devi and Mala Kumari. 2. Pulse Based Cropping System: Paramount for Nutritional and soil health security in Bihar, India/Rakesh Deo Ranjan, Shivnath Das, Sanjeev Kumar and Archana Rani and Sanjay Kumar. 3. Indices Based Study of Major Crops and Their Cropping Systems Scenario of NARP Zones in Uttar Pradesh, India/Avadhesh Kumar Koshal. 4. Analysis of Trends in Monsoon Rainfall and its Influence on Productivity of Kharif Rice: A district wise latest update/Jitendra Kumar Meher, Lalu Das and Vikram Jeet Singh. 5. Ecology of Rice Blast (Magnaporthe grisea) Disease and its Management/Kadu Tanvi Pradeeprao, Kale Sonam Sureshrao, Chavan Narendra Rameshsing Vandana Shukla. 6. Plant Quarantine: The First Line of Defense/Sanjeev Kumar and Archana Rani. 7. Piper nigrum L. as a Natural Biopesticide: A field experiment on growth, yield and diseses of solanum Melongena L./Gayatri Nahak and Rajani Kanta Sahu. Epidemiology, Symptomatology and Management of Mungbean Anthracnose Caused by Colletotrichum truncatum (Schw.) Andrus and Moore/Vandana Shukla, Vijay Sharma, Kadu Tanvi Pradeeprao and Payal Devi. 9. Integrated diseases management in India : an overview/Sanjeev Kumar and Archana Rani. Index.